The excitement of “digging up treasures” when shopping overseas

May 3, 2012

I have been wanting to meet local inspiring Thai designers for the longest time and I finally had the chance to meet up with some of them. I will be blogging about them over the weekend after a good long sleep and after washing up all my “new loots clothes”. hahaaa

I was at the famous weekend market Chatuchak and I came across this very interesting stall. The inspiring designer was making and designing accessories with tons of cool acrylic plastic designs. I was soooo excited I asked if he does customisation. He said yes and just like that, I started designing with him!! 2 different race, 1 love for designing, we were doing all the charades and despite our language barrier, we seem to be able to understand each other very well. These 3 necklaces are very chunky and the pictures below doesn’t do them justice. I will be sure to snap a better picture when I wear it.

How do you like them?? I AM IN LOVE WITH THEM!!!!

Chatuchak Weekend Market,is very popular among Thais and has become a popular place to tourists and foreigners who stay in Bangkok. You can find just about anything and everything here at a bargaining local price and with over 10,000 stalls, you’ll never come out empty handed!!

Chatuchak Weekend Market

Open: The weekend market is open on Saturdays and Sundays, 09:00 – 18:00, and Fridays 18:00 – 24:00.

How to Get to Chatuchak:

– Hop on the skytrain (BTS) to Mo Chit station, take exit no. 1 and follow the crowd until you see rows of canvas stalls selling clothes. Turn right while continuing to follow the crowd and you will see a small entrance that leads into the market (clothing section).

This is the 1st time I didn’t manage to snap many pictures due to the burning weather. D and I were soooo dehydrated we didn’t even have to go to the bathroom! Some locals were telling us the best time to travel to BKK would be from Sep – Dec. We will remember for sure!!!!!!! I am feeling all the aches from the nasty sunburns, am gona go to bed now. Nitesss…

Like this:

modgam
You can always spot Mag in colours for she believes we should all inject a little bit of fun and colours into our regular mundane life. The explorer in her enjoys digging her way around not only in Singapore but overseas where she share her love for travel, photography and food.

You make me smile 🙂 I’m not into skulls at all boot that is really such a cheerful necklace which will hopefully keep reminding you of the happy memories from your trip – those are the best things you can buy, and the ones you never want to throw away I find 🙂

modgam

May 5, 2012 at 9:30 pm

that makes the 2 of us! =]
i couldnt agree more, all the good memories and the chance to actually “work” with the local designer to come up with something so memorable and pretty… priceless.

thank you thank you! i was really lucky to be able to spot this inspiring local designer and begin designing with him. i had so much fun, i didnt wana leave. i was eyeing 1 necklace and ended up with 3! hahaa